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Originally posted The Hill Before the 2017 German election, Angela Merkel issued a loud call to build an election firewall. Everyone listened. By contrast, Eric Rosenbach, former head of cybersecurity for the Defense Department, told the Financial Times, “[States] are just not equipped to be fighting the pointy end of the spear of the Russian [intelligence […]

Reposted from: http://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/381418-half-a-century-later-mlks-work-remains-unfinished On Wednesday, April 4, we commemorate the life, legacy and contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Growing up in the segregated south, I remember the day he was murdered. My Grandma Frances, who was born 22 years after the end of slavery and had lived most of her life in Mississippi […]

BY BILLY KOBIN AND WKOBIN@SACBEE.COM (Originally posted HERE) January 11, 2018 03:26 PM Updated January 11, 2018 05:14 PM Donna Brazile, former interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, headlined the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. breakfast on Thursday, reminding the audience of California’s important role in creating the day honoring the slain civil […]

Originally posted: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/20/fury-donna-brazile-hacked-book-thomas-frank Donna Brazile has spent most of her life as a good soldier of the Democratic party, managing presidential campaigns, supporting the Clinton family, and (last year) stepping in to take over the Democratic National Committee after its chair was felled by scandal. But with the publication of her campaign memoir Hacks, this […]

Donna Brazile appeared at a National Press Club Headliners Book Rap on December 12, 2017 to discuss her book, Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House. (Run time: 87 minutes)

Originally posted here: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774 ### Before I called Bernie Sanders, I lit a candle in my living room and put on some gospel music. I wanted to center myself for what I knew would be an emotional phone call. I had promised Bernie when I took the helm of the Democratic National Committee after the […]

Originally published here: http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/353501-to-rebuild-trump-must-show-civility-after-the-storm ### Leave it to President Trump to pick the worst time to show his worst self. Over the weekend, while San Juan’s Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz was busy trying to bring more attention to the people still suffering after Hurricane Maria, Trump took to Twitter to personally criticize her. Mr. President, […]

By Travis Andersen | Originally posted here Rap icon LL Cool J, filmmaker Ava DuVernay, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, and artist Kara Walker are among those who will be celebrated next month during an annual ceremony at Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. They’ll receive the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal at the […]

Remember “hope and change”? It would be wise for Democrats going forward to remember that Obama mantra. Even after all we’ve gone through in the past year—from the Russian hacking to the subsequent Trump victory—we’ve still got hope and change. In fact, you might say it’s all we’ve got. So now hope rests on change. […]

CAMBRIDGE, MA — The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, based at Harvard Kennedy School, is pleased to announce the appointment of fall 2017 fellows and visiting faculty. “I am delighted to welcome a stellar group of scholars, journalists, entrepreneurs, and policymakers to join the Shorenstein Center this fall,” said Center Director Nicco […]